A motorized shoe? One with motorized springs or something else to propel you faster? Is it possible?
A motorized shoe? One with motorized springs or something else to propel you faster? Is it possible?
Wasn't even an actual pro. She was a U23 rider. Her older brother is currently serving an epo suspension which makes me suspicious of the father.
Don't you know it wasn't actually her bike?!
motorized shoe? wrote:
A motorized shoe? One with motorized springs or something else to propel you faster? Is it possible?
No motors, but a guy from South Africa earned a WC silver in the 4x400 using carbon fiber springs in place of legs a few years ago.
Springs are banned if you actually have legs though.
Wasn't there a shoe out there being promoted that had springs in them? This was probably 5+ years ago. I thought 3 Africans ran in them for the promotional money from the shoe company and ended up being DQ'd.
Nike Airs?
They had that basketball shoe that made you jump higher a few years ago, it was banned from the NBA.
While my first inclination is to laugh, what gives me pause is the high tech swimsuits from a few years back that dramatically improved times. I know, apples and oranges, but maybe there is some sort of shoe design that could make a big difference
Built-up shoes for high jump.
Spiras
There is a professor I believe in Russia who made a pair of boots that function on a diesel principle.
The impact of landing compresses a piston which ignites the fuel and fires the piston which propels him up and forward repeating the cycle with each stride.
Cummins Turbo Boots wrote:
There is a professor I believe in Russia who made a pair of boots that function on a diesel principle.
The impact of landing compresses a piston which ignites the fuel and fires the piston which propels him up and forward repeating the cycle with each stride.
But of course, it was a Russian professor. The shoes then exploded and blew off his legs.
Can Jimmy run?
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While my first inclination is to laugh, what gives me pause is the high tech swimsuits from a few years back that dramatically improved times. I know, apples and oranges, but maybe there is some sort of shoe design that could make a big difference
Of course it is possible. See the effect of things like tuned tracks (or just dirt versus the modern synthetics) to see how you can change the amount of energy returned to the runner versus lost.
From the Wikipedia page: "It is expected that while using the "rocket boots", a person could travel at an average speed of around 10.5 mph (17 km/h)."
10.5? That's the best they can do?
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From the Wikipedia page: "It is expected that while using the "rocket boots", a person could travel at an average speed of around 10.5 mph (17 km/h)."
10.5? That's the best they can do?
Average. That means they could go way faster.
Considering that modern carbon fiber bikes can be manufactured to weigh way less than the legal limit, that of course opens the possibility of hiding little motors inside. I doubt that these would give you enough assistance for a time trial to be worth noting, but an extra 100 watt for just 20 seconds during the final climb may be enough to distance yourself from the the other riders on the final climb.
What about those heely shoes. Has anybody tried to get away doing a race with those? Would they even be beneficial?
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